Civil War law is blow to Episcopal Church: CEN 7.13.08 July 13, 2008
Posted by geoconger in Church of England Newspaper, Property Litigation, Virginia.trackback
| A US state court has rejected attempts to overturn a state law permitting congregations to withdraw from the church with their properties following a schism, delivering the Episcopal Church its second legal loss in its battle with 11 Nigerian-affiliated parishes in Northern Virginia.
On June 27, Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Randy Bellows held that Virginia Statute 57-9A did not violate the US Constitution. The decision came in response to a lawsuit brought by the Episcopal Church and Diocese of Virginia against 11 Northern Virginia parishes that had quit the Episcopal Church for the Churches of Nigeria and Uganda. Read it all in The Church of England Newspaper. |
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